Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy on Friday unveiled a campaign website that showed he will announce his candidacy for governor over the weekend.

A vocal opponent of the stricter Colorado gun laws recently implemented, Brophy, who has represented his sprawling eastern Colorado district in both the state House and Senate, will seek the party’s nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo announced his candidacy in June.

Brophy’s news conference will be Sunday afternoon in Parker.

In the past legislative session, Brophy bucked his own party and supported a measure that grants in-state tuition rates to students in the country illegally. Brophy’s vote sets him apart from Tancredo, an immigration firebrand who has backed the idea of “self-deportation” — a stance that puts him at odds with a national Republican strategy of courting more Latino voters.

Other high-profile GOP candidates rumored to be considering entering the primary include Secretary of State Scott Gessler — who has filed paperwork to run for governor — and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler.

A native of Colorado, Kurtis Lee was a politics reporter for The Denver Post from February 2011 until July 2014. He graduated cum laude from Temple University in 2009 with a degree in journalism and political science. He previously worked as an online writer in Washington, D.C., for the PBS NewsHour.

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